Machine generated contents note: 1. Risk Communication, Culture, and Ethnicity -- 2. Theoretical Bases of Risk Communication -- 3. Disaster Warnings as Risk Communication -- 4. Hazard Awareness as Risk Communication -- 5. Approaches to Influencing Hazard Adjustment Adoption
Summary
The authors explore the nature of natural hazards (earthquakes, floods, etc.) and technological dangers (hazardous waste, nuclear power plants, etc.), develop a model for understanding people's reaction to risk messages (Do they evacuate when the weather dictates as much? Do they protest the impending construction of a nuclear power plant?), and demonstrate how effective strategies for disseminating risk messages can be devised
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-246) and index
